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10 papers

hep-th2026

Quantum gravity around ultracold black holes from DSSYK

Francesca Mariani, Thomas G. Mertens, Jacopo Papalini +1

We propose a quantum description of the ultracold Reissner-Nordström de Sitter black hole via a specific flat space limit of the double-scaled SYK model. Fluctuations in this regim…

hep-th2026

Quantum JT Gravity in a box as a Pöschl-Teller Scattering Problem

Luca Griguolo, Jacopo Papalini, Lorenzo Russo +2

We present a canonical quantization of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with finite Dirichlet boundary conditions, using the geodesic length between the two boundaries and its conjugate m…

hep-th2026

A new perspective on dilaton gravity at finite cutoff

Luca Griguolo, Jacopo Papalini, Lorenzo Russo +1

The formulation of two-dimensional quantum gravity at finite cutoff remains an open problem. We revisit this question in JT gravity from two perspectives: the closed-channel bulk p…

hep-th2026

Wormholes, branes and finite matrices in sine dilaton gravity

Andreas Blommaert, Adam Levine, Thomas G. Mertens +2

We compute the double trumpet in sine dilaton gravity via WdW quantization. The wormhole size is discretized. The wormhole amplitude matches the spectral correlation of a finite-cu…

hep-th2025

De Sitter holographic complexity from Krylov complexity in DSSYK

Michal P. Heller, Fabio Ori, Jacopo Papalini +2

We utilize the recent connection between the high energy limit of the double-scaled SYK model and two-dimensional de Sitter solutions of sine dilaton gravity to identify the length…

hep-th2025

Krylov spread complexity as holographic complexity beyond JT gravity

Michal P. Heller, Jacopo Papalini, Tim Schuhmann

One of the important open problems in quantum black hole physics is a dual interpretation of holographic complexity proposals. To date the only quantitative match is the equality b…